kuì
offer food superior
Expensive 貴 food 飠; 貴 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 饋
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
feedback | ||
food | ||
to repay a favor | ||
to present (a gift) to (sb) | ||
negative feedback |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ruj-s | gwijH | kuì | present of food (<food basket ?) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.5949% of movies
2733rd most common character in movies
2947th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 20 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+994B |
Shuowen | “饋,餉也。从食,貴聲。” |
Sources
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